It would have been very much the same with the White South Africans with the fall of Apartheid. The film Invictus reminded me so much of them. It will be the same for the Jews when Israel falls..if any of them make it out alive.
I wouldn't say that history ends here, in our time. But these are unique times in many ways, and they are certainly the end of something. If you look around, you can see that everything seems to be accelerating, like a washing machine: it starts spinning slowly, but as the cycle approaches its end, the spin gets faster and faster. Just look at how much the world has changed technologically in only the last twenty years. Around fifty years ago, some places in Ireland still didn't have electricity. Today, only a few remote rural areas in Africa remain without it, and they are gradually being connected as well. More than seven billion people now use mobile phones. We have the internet, extraordinary advances in medicine, and technologies that previous generations could hardly have imagined. Never before in history have we experienced such a collapse in birth rates. We have had diseases and wars that killed millions, but the number of children being born always remained high. Now we are facing a demographic time bomb: China alone is expected to lose around ten million people per year, while Europe could lose around five million annually. There has also never been such a widespread decline in religious belief. There were religious wars and there were heresies, but people still believed in the supernatural. Today we see moral decadence, the sexualization of society, sexual disorders, the justification of evil, and a growing dehumanization of the family, sex, gender, and human relationships. If I asked you whether the world and your own life felt slower and less stressful around the year 2000, I believe you would answer immediately that they did. That doesn't mean there were no problems—there were economic difficulties and personal struggles just as there are today, but society felt more normal and slower. It is difficult to describe the world, but it feels strange like when you first notice the symptoms of a cold and know it will fully hit in a few days. My position remains clear: I believe communism comes from them their elites and that they are pursuing global rule without any doubt. Their goal, in my view, is to undermine other peoples ethnically, religiously, economically, morally, and demographically. Yet even their plan, this return to where they once were, fits into a larger pattern, just as Judas' betrayal had to happen at that particular time, in that particular place, and through his own free decision. God's plan encompassed that choice and incorporated it into the plan of salvation. I believe there is a reason why, in our own time, the Holy Spirit has allowed such extraordinary technological, medical, and economic progress. There is a reason why, after two thousand years of dispersion, they have returned to that land under the leadership of their elites. There is a reason why the Middle East has once again become the center of world events, and why oil was discovered there, further increasing the region's global importance. Even if you look at the history of the Church, from the very beginning there were heresies, but there was also the work of the Holy Spirit. The first Christians did not possess even five percent of what we have today in terms of doctrinal clarity. The fullness of truth has unfolded over time, just as Jesus said it would. Today Christians profess doctrines such as Jesus Christ being true God and true man, the dogma of the Immaculate Conception, Mary as the Mother of God (Theotokos), the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, along with many other dogmas that have been defined throughout the history of the Church. We are living in a time when East and West are coming together, when the global economy is interconnected, and when, through social media, the world's moral outlook is also becoming "unified" in an unusual way through online influence and, more broadly, through a shared culture of life. Everything is accessible, yet the fundamental questions of common sense about life and the very definition of what it means to be human have never been more challenged. The same is true of the family, parenthood, and children. Everything seems to be moving toward a culmination. I believe this is also reflected in the Marian apparitions, which became more numerous over the last few centuries. Yet, following the Second Vatican Council and especially since the 1970s, there appears to have been a decline—not only in reported apparitions, but also, one could say, in the number of saints or holy individuals recognized for possessing extraordinary spiritual gifts at least externally.
